Parameters for Control and Optimization of Bioleaching of Sulfide Minerals

Materials Science and Technology 2003 Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 77-90

  Deveci, H ^a   Akcil, A ^b   Alp, I ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acidophilic bacteria; Bioleaching; Biooxidation

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEACHING; OPTIMIZATION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PH EFFECTS;

ACIDOPHILIC BACTERIA; BIOLEACHING; BIOOXIDATION;

SULFIDE MINERALS;

EID: 1542347599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (35)

1. D.W. Dew, E.N. Lawson, J.L. Broadhurst, "The BIOX® process for biooxidation of gold bearing ores or concentrates," Biomining: Theory, Microbes and Industrial Processes, ed. D.E. Rawlings (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997), 45-79.
2. D.E. Rawlings, D. Dew, C. du Plessis, "Biomineralization of Metal Containing Ores and Concentrates," Trends in Biotechnology, 21 (1) (2003), 38-44.
3. P.C. Miller et al., "Commercialisation of bioleaching for metal extraction," Minerals and Metallurgical Processing, 16 (4) (1999), 42-50.
4. W.J. Ingledew, "Thiobacillus ferrooxidans: The bioenergetics of an acidophilic chemolithotroph," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 683 (1982), 89-117.
5. I. Suzuki, "Microbial leaching of metals from sulphide minerals," Biotechnology Advances, 19 (2001), 119-132.
6. W. Sand et al., "(Bio)chemistry of bacterial leaching-direct vs. indirect bioleaching," Hydrometallurgy, 59 (2-3) (2001), 159-175.
7. P.R. Norris, N.P. Burton and N.A.M. Foulis, "Acidophiles in Bioreactor Mineral Processing," Extremophiles, 4 (2000), 71-76.
8. P. d'Hugues et al., "Continuous Bioleaching of Chalcopyrite Using a Novel Extremely Thermophilic Mixed Culture," International Journal of Mineral Processing, 66 (2002), 107-119.
9. K. Bosecker,. "Bioleaching: Metal Solubilization by Microorganisms," FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 20 (1997), 591-604.
10. A.E. Torma, "The Role of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in Hydrometallurgical Processes," Advances in Biochemical Engineering, eds. T.K. Ghose, A. Fiechter and N. Blakebrough (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1977), 1-37.
11. A.P. Harrison, "Genomic and Physiological Diversity Amongst Strains of Thiobacillus ferroxidans and Genomic Comparison with Thiobacillus thiooxidans," Arc. Microbiology, 131 (1982), 68-76.
12. D.B. Johnson et al., "Biodiversity of acidophilic moderate thermophiles isolated from two sites in Yellowstone National Park and their roles in the dissimilatory oxido-reduction of iron," Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Thermophiles in Yellowstone National Park, eds. A.L. Resenbach and A. Voytek (New York NY: Plenum Press, 2000).
13. M.I. Sampson, "Influence of the Cell Properties of Acidophilic Bacteria During Attachment to Mineral Sulphides and Consumption of Oxygen During the Oxidation of Ferrous Iron" (PhD Thesis, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, 1999).
14. R. Guay, J. Ghosh, A.E. Torma, "Kinetics of Microbiological Production of Ferric Iron for Heap and Dump Leaching," Biotechnology in Mineral and Metal Processing, eds. B.J. Schemer, F.M. Doyle and S.K. Kawatra (Colorado: SME Inc, 1989), 95-106.
15. W.A. Apel, P.R. Dugan, "Hydrogen Ion Utilisation by Iron-grown Thiobacillus ferrooxidans," Metallurgical Applications of Bacterial Leaching and Related Microbiological Phenomena, eds. E.L. Murr, A.E. Torma and J.A. Brierley (New York NY: Academic Press, 1978), 45-59.
16. P.C. Miller, The Design and Operating Practice of Bacterial Oxidation Plant Using Moderate Thermophiles," Biomining: Theory, Microbes and Industrial Processes, ed. D.E. Rawlings (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997), 81-100.
17. th International Mineral Processing Symposium 18-20 September 2002, Cappadocia, Turkey).
18. G. Rossi, Biohydrometallurgy (Hamburg: McGraw-Hill, 1990) 595.
19. M.P. Silverman, D.G. Lundgren, "Studies on the Chemolithotrophic Iron Bacterium Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans: I. An Improved Medium and Harvesting Procedure for Securing High Cell Yields,"J. Bacteriology, 77 (1959), 642-677.
20. C. Gomez, M.L. Blazquez, A. Ballester, "Bioleaching of a Spanish Complex Sulphide Ore-Bulk Concentrate," Minerals Engineering, 12 (1) (1999), 93-106.
21. 2 Fixation and Iron Oxidation as Measure of Growth," Arch. Microbiology 88 (1973), 285-298.
22. P.R. Norris, D.W. Barr, "Growth and Iron Oxidation by Acidophilic Thermophiles," FEMS Microbiology Letters, 28 (1985), 221-224.
23. W. Leathen, N.A. Kinsel, I.A. Braley, "Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans: A Chemosynthetic Autotrophic Bacterium," J. Bacteriology, 72 (1956), 700-704.
24. M.S. Liu, R.M.R. Branion, D.W. Duncan, "Oxygen Transfer to Thiobacillus Cultures," Biohydrometallurgy: Proc. of the Int. Symp., eds. P.R. Norris and D.P. Kelly (Warwick: 1987), 374-385.
25. A.S. Myerson, "Oxygen Mass Transfer Requirements During the Growth of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans on Iron Pyrite," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 23 (1981), 1413-1416.
26. P. d'Hugues et al., "Bioleaching of a Cobaltiferous Pyrite: A Continuous Laboratory-scale Study at High Solids Concentration," Minerals Engineering, 10 (5) (1997), 507-527.
27. P.R. Norris, "Factors Affecting Bacterial Mineral Oxidation: The Example of Carbon Dioxide in the Context of Bacterial Diversity," Biohydrometallurgy, eds. J. Salley, R.G.L. McCready and P.L. Wichlacz, (CANMET SP89-10, 1989), 3-14.
28. J.Y. Witne, C.V. Phillips, "Bioleaching of Ok Tedi Copper Concentrate in Oxygen- and Carbon Dioxide-Enriched Air," Minerals Engineering, 14 (1) (2001), 25-48.
29. M. Boon, J.J. Heijnen, "Gas-liquid Mass Transfer Phenomena in Biooxidation Experiments of Sulphide Minerals: A Review of Literature Data," Hydrometallurgy, 48 (1998), 187-204.
30. A.D. Bailey, G.S. Hansford, "Factors Affecting the Biooxidation of Sulphide Minerals at High Concentrations of Solids: A Review," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 12(10) (1993), 1164-1174.
31. H. Deveci, "Effect of Solids on Viability of Acidophilic Bacteria," Minerals Engineering, 15 (2002), 1181-1190.
32. th Int. Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, IMCET 2003, ed. G. Ozbayoglu (Ankara: The Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey, 2003), 415-423.
33. C. Komnitsas, F.D. Pooley, "Optimisation of the Bacterial Oxidation of an Arsenical Gold Sulphide Concentrate from Olympias, Greece," Minerals Engineering, 4(12) (1991), 1297-1303.
34. O.H. Tuovinen, S.I. Niemela, H.G. Gyuenberg, "Tolerance of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans to Some Metals," Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 37 (1971), 489-496.
35. K.A. Natarajan, "Electrochemical Aspects of Bioleaching of Base Metal Sulphides," Microbial Mineral Recovery, eds. H.L. Ehrlich and C.L. Brierley (McGraw-Hill, 1990), 79-106.